Vocabulary and expressions in Mandarin Chinese related to using a computer and Internet. Working with files and folders, chatting in Chinese with your buddies on MSN. Your computer has crashed! Tell your Chinese online friend that you need to restart your computer and that you will be back online in a moment.

Notes on Mobile Phones

Since the vast majority of Asian input methods seem to work best with a US keyboard, it is a right pain to use them on a Portuguese keyboard. However, I've learned a few things that help:

The U.S. Extended keyboard layout lets you type Pinyin diacritical marks - go to International on System Preferences and enable it (it's the one that says Unicode, in case you have any doubts). Here's the basics (you can check these in Keyboard Viewer):

Forget about Spotlight's key bindings. You really want to use Cmd+Space to switch input methods, it's the only sane way to do it without reaching for the mouse every 30 seconds.

Apple's Pinyin input method only works for TraditionalChinese, so you're likely to either want to try to figure out the other (PRC) input methods (ITABC sort of works for me, but I find it annoying to hit space for every character) or install OpenVanilla.